stopGOstop: field recordings, sound collage, and sound art

Benefits: Dear future humans; for many, this isn’t the plan; tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow; episode 180.

 Benefits is the second episode in the Immeasurable podcast mini-series.

Immeasurable is a loosely connected series of episodes that weaves together eclectic narratives—ranging from a subjective history of buses to a serene listing of trees found in Chicago and even the curious banter of Zoom calls. Each episode is an amalgamation of stories, ideas, and voices, creating a tapestry that can be experienced in order or shuffled for a new perspective each time.

Written and produced by John Wanzel, Immeasurable is brought to life by the newest Automata, a state-of-the-art text-to-voice generator.

Conversations and interactions while waiting for the bus, talking to a colleague on Zoom, chatting with a stranger at the bar, and with the voices in the dark. A narrative in parts, made whole. stopGOstop is proud to present episode 179, Exchange.

Exchange is the first episode in the Immeasurable podcast mini-series.

Immeasurable is a loosely connected series of episodes that weaves together eclectic narratives—ranging from a subjective history of buses to a serene listing of trees found in Chicago and even the curious banter of Zoom calls. Each episode is an amalgamation of stories, ideas, and voices, creating a tapestry that can be experienced in order or shuffled for a new perspective each time.

Written and produced by John Wanzel, Immeasurable is brought to life by the newest Automata, a state-of-the-art text-to-voice generator.

stopGOstop is proud to present episode 178: 2° F winds out of the west, a new composition for cello, piano, percussion and recording.

(Some might have gotten a re-podcast of episode 171 on 1/24, a clerical error, please enjoy)

Concrete blocks, a bit of feedback, a slow melody, erosion, moving, turning to a beat to move forward, sitting and thinking about the future.

A recycling of some of the sonic elements from 103 of the podcast, Unknown Movement Underground, originally uploaded in July of 2018. Sine waves rearranged for sample instruments, field recordings are replaced by a drum machine.

Looking at the bark of a tree– nothing seems to be moving, the tree is moving slower than I can see, I listen for its sound, I hear episode 176, a new composition for a small ensemble and binaural field recording of traffic.

The water flows north this morning. The sun, it seems to be moving slower over the lake, gaining altitude, finding its way through the clouds. The birds, mostly geese, sparrows, and pigeons today… I wonder if they see what I see. Do they marvel at the sun, the clouds, and the reflective light on the lake? Their brains are made of the same gray stuff as mine; why wouldn’t their mind be able to remember what they ate yesterday, remember the nice bird feeder, the couple that stared at them through the window? Maybe they get bored with the games we use to try and measure their intellect and see no use in them. They go and dream of bird art and bird poetry instead of taking the bird S.A.T.

Either way, the morning is beautiful.

We judge our past, to or at a distance, at what our ancestors too often turned a blind eye to, so too, future concepts in weather will not recover what we already have done; truth be told, if we were serious about climate change we would ban jet aircraft, by that I mean, truth is always easier looking towards the past or future, but not towards the now.

Either way, the morning is beautiful.

stopGOstop is proud to present episode 175, Song of Water, Sparrows, and Light, a new piece for manipulated sine waves and sample library orchestra.

Looking inward — the waves moving, the mind murmurs in melody, this morning there was a glimmer, then at noon a glow; as I move, I hear episode 173, a new composition for a small ensemble.